Wednesday Open Thread [7.1.15]

Filed in National by on July 1, 2015

I’m busy compiling the final Vote Tracker for the year to recap the final day of the legislative session for the General Assembly. So have at it.

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  1. Jason330 says:
    July 1, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    Heard about this listening to Maddow. it doesn’t seem to be getting much play.

    President Barack Obama will announce a sweeping change to the nation’s overtime pay law, dramatically expanding the number of people who will qualify for increased pay after working more than 40 hours in a week.

    The proposed rule, first reported by Politico, will raise the threshold for guaranteed overtime pay from a salary of $23,660 to $50,440. The long-awaited rule change aims to improve wages for nearly 5 million people as early as 2016.

    Obama said in a Huffington Post piece that the change would be good for workers and for businesses that are already paying workers fairly and being undercut by companies that don’t.

    “That’s how America should do business. In this country, a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay,” Obama wrote. “That’s at the heart of what it means to be middle class in America.”

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